I recently picked up a Kinect unit for the purpose of playing around with the many excellent hacks the community has come up with, and for the sake of evaluating it for use in exhibits. It is a little shocking to me in retrospect that I never even loosely considered actually hooking the thing up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Xbox 360’
Snoopy Flying Ace. What on earth is going on?!
Since when was Snoopy relevant again? Was he ever relevant? The Peanuts rank up there with Garfield as the most boring comic strip I have ever had the displeasure of reading, and was inexplicably graced with its own animated TV show that was equally boring. I mean.. I barely even know what The Peanuts was [...]
On achievements
So my second warranty-less 360 died a week ago, and since my economy is currently shot for a couple of months, i’ve returned to my other systems for gaming sustenance. The Wii has gotten a lot more play (though mostly through VC stuff), but also my PC, my Dreamcast and bizarrely my Xbox classic (got [...]
Ace Combat 6 gets my vote for disappointment of the year
BE WARNED; THAR BE MILD SPOILERS My god what a mess. It’s a pretty mess, but compared to the almost impossibly well made Ace Combat 5 and the gritty Zero, Ace Combat 6 is an incredibly hard fall for the series as far as i’m concerned. It literally breaks my heart. But let’s rewind. Ace [...]
Marathon: Durandal XBLA, a biased review
Halo’s granddaddy. There’s something strange about seeing this game running on the 360. Last time i played it in earnest was 12 years ago, on my family’s Mac IIsi (if you can believe that). I spent a ridiculous amount of time making mods, maps and scenarios for it, being quite active in the Marathon Map [...]
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